We can't speed up Vivado, unfortunately. Maybe if we design an RFNoC block that does place and route.... </wild fantasy>
So, there's not much you can do. You might be able to use design checkpoints, but that's an advanced Vivado feature and we don't have support out of the box for that. You need to know what you're doing. -- M On 07/24/2018 12:55 PM, Dan CaJacob via USRP-users wrote: > I am not an FPGA or Vivado expert, but I tried to do the same thing. I > believe Vivado is limited to 4 cores, so sadly, it seems like your best > bet is to get a quad-core with the fastest clock you can find. I think > AWS just released a "frequency-optimized" instance family. Maybe take a > look at that. > > Ultimately, Vivado sucks for not supporting arbitrary numbers of cores. > There's not a small but of irony in a embarrassingly parallel device > being developed on a few cores... > > - Dan > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:11 PM Jason Matusiak via USRP-users > <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com <mailto:usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>> wrote: > > I know Vivado build times are dependent on how optimized you want > things and how utilized the FPGA is, but is there a way to speed up > the build times? > > I started doing my builds on a server thinking it would be a huge > boost from my PC, but I am not really seeing a difference. It has > 64 cores and 300Gb of RAM, but if I look at my usage while building > an image, I see a single core pegged at 100%, and I am only using > about 6Gb of RAM. > > My image is taking about 2 hours these days, but I was hoping to > speed things up a bit if it is possible (I know Vivado has some > hooks to do things, but I don't know if it will mess up the X310 > build process). > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com <mailto:USRP-users@lists.ettus.com> > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com > > -- > Very Respectfully, > > Dan CaJacob > > > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com > _______________________________________________ USRP-users mailing list USRP-users@lists.ettus.com http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com
